Corpus explanation: My corpus’s main category is electronic music,
having subgenres as: Electro, House, Minimal. The corpus currently
consists of 1127 tracks, where there are 441 electro tracks, 153 house
tracks, and 503 minimal tracks. I’ve chosen this corpus since I am an
electronic music producer and a DJ and are mainly focused on unheard
underground records from the house spectrum ranging between 1980 till
2005. Most of the tracks which are currently present in my corpus are
remastered versions of vinyl records from that region. Many people often
state that House music is a boring repetitive genre, but I am clearly
convinced that House music offers a large scale of unique musical
compositions to the music catalogue. Similar albums, artists, and people
are unique within the corpus. The main similarity is (hopefully) in its
audio data and arrangement of the tracks. The gaps between the genres
are relative. The gap between the Electro genre and a completely
different genre such as Indie would be larger compared to the gap
between the Acid genre and the Electro genre. But I am unsure how large
the gap between House and Electro will be within my corpus. The tracks
currently in the corpus are representative to their genres. The
qualities of the tracks could differ since they originate from different
years, so they had different recording software. Also some tracks are
remastered or digitised throughout the years. So there is a distinction
between the quality of the tracks. Some tracks in the corpus have a
really low BPM (around 60) compared to other main BPM (129) in the
corpus. These are really ambient-like tracks instead of more house-alike
tracks. Several tracks from “Craig Richards” are really experimental,
abstract, industrial tracks which could be seen as atypical tracks.
Typical tracks are the standard popular house tracks within the corpus
such as “Schatrax - Keep on Live (Original Mix)”.